Now
What am I doing right now? That’s the point of a now page.
Community:
- I was elected to be the Democratic voter registrar in Warren, CT in the November 2024 election. I’m now taking the certification classes and soon hope to take the final exam.
Work:
- I currently maintain several Craft CMS sites and am looking to add another one or two to my plate. If you have a Craft CMS site that needs a Craft pro’s attention, don’t hesitate to contact me.
- I launched a Craft CMS plugin, Bespoken. The plugin creates high-quality audio narration for Craft CMS sites using the AI from ElevenLabs. Improving your site’s accessibility has never been easier. In the time since its launch, I’ve sold exactly no copies! It’s a good plugin, IMO, but I don’t think there is a commericial market for it within the Craft ecosystem. Dang!
- I’ve been working on client project where my task was to optimize the site’s speed, updating the build system and deployment process. That sounds geeky, but I have really enjoyed it.
- I’ve got a new, small Gist to share. It’s a bash script that I run nightly on this site to warm the cache and to server pages as fast as possible. https://gist.github.com/johnfmorton/df5745d997057402491e25b37e33043e The script also shows me which pages are the slowest loading so that I can know what issues to address.
Hobbies:
- I’ve been doing some new work on my generative art hobby project, https://github.com/johnfmorton/p5js-svg-starter. It now has its own Github Pages demo that is updated each time I push to the
main
branch on GitHub. Check it out here. One cool thing it does now is that it “remembers” the drawing you’ve created using URL parameters. That link is an example of one drawing I particularly like. - I’ve also been playing Diablo IV on PlayStation. This bullet point on my “now” page is unlikely to change anytime soon. Diablo IV is my go-to game.
updated 02FEB2025
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